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'UNIT ZD STATES PATENT' OFFICE EDWARD LYON, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO MOSHER A. SUTHERLAND,

M OF NEW YORK. N. Y.

C OMPOUND SOAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 226,920, dated April 27, 1880.

Application filed June 25, 1879. m

To all whom it may concern: able capacity, and the soap afterward added Be it known that I, EDWARD LYON, of thereto, the whole being agitated in any suit- Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of able manner until the soap is thoroughly dis- 3 5 New York, have invented certain new and usesolved. After this the ammonia is added, and 5 ful Improvements in Compound Soaps; and I then the other ingredients, and the whole is do hereby declare that the following is a full, thoroughly incorporated by further agitation clear, and exact description of the invention, until the compound assumes a homogeneous which will enable others skilled in the art to condition, after which it is emptied into pans 4o which it appertains to make and use the same. to cool, and may then be formed into cakes or 10 This invention relates to an improved combars, which may be put up and supplied to the pound soap; and it has for its object to protrade in any convenient manner. duce a soap having great cleansing qualities, I have stated above what I have found to and which will be particularly useful in removanswer well for general purposes as the pro- 5 in g grease or oils from glass or paint, for cleanportions of the ingredients to be employed in 15 ing silver and plated ware, and which will posthe manufacture of my improved compound sess curative properties in the highest degree, soap; but I do not intend thereby to limit myrendering it extremely useful in the treatment self to said proportions, as they maybe varied of sprains, cuts, and bruises. to suit particular purposes. 5c To this end my invention consists in the em- Having described my invention, what Iclaim 2o ployment of ordinary soap as a base or founisdation of myimproved compound soap, which An improved compound soap consisting of is produced by the addition to the ordinary OIdll -r soa ,a ua ammonia ortior, (stronger soap of mnmoniafortior and certain other insolution 1 of ammoniaj SilI-SOtid, salt and by; 55

gredients, as more fully hereinafter specified, posul bite of s da substantiallymescribed. 2 5 and thoroughly incorporating the whole. In testimony thatI claim the foregoing as In carrying out my invention I take warm my own I hereunto afiix my signature in preswater, sixty gallons Babbitts best soap, twenence of two witnesses. tycakes; aqua mnmoniwfortior (stronger so- 1 T lution of ammoma,) one-half pint; sal-soda, EDWARD L1 30 ten pounds salt, one gill; hyposulphite of Witnesses:

soda, one pound. E. F. MEAD,

The water is first put into a caldron of suit- M. A. SUTHERLAND. 

